List of lesbian characters in SF

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This is a list of lesbian characters, major or minor, in SF. Lesbianism can be identity or behavior (so including women with bisexual histories).

Fiction

• Alldera in Motherlines, The Conqueror's Child, and The Furies, by Suzy McKee Charnas (also appears in Walk to the End of the World but does not have a female lover in that book)
• Cara in The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman
• Cerise, Trouble's lover, in Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
• Dani Forrest, protagonit of Cognate by R. C. Brojim
• Dirishi Zuri in Matadora by Steve Perry
• Friday in Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein (has sex with women)
• Gaby Plauget, Cirocco's lover, in the Gaea trilogy by John Varley
• Gail in Crossfire by Nancy Kress
• Gilda in The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez)
• Grace in How I Saved the World by Philip Slater (bisexual)
• India Carless ("Trouble") in Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
• Jadwiga in Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
• Janet in The Female Man by Joanna Russ
• Cirocco Jones in the Gaea trilogy by John Varley
• Karis in Fire Logic, Earth Logic,, and Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks
• Karolina in Runaways
• Kiyoka in Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
• Marghe Taishan in Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
• Milena in The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
• Norres in The Northern Girl by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Ren Segura ("Jackal") in Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
• Ruby in Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon
• Serafina in Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
• Shrimp in 334 by Thomas Disch
• Sorren in The Northern Girl by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Stefile in The Warrior Who Carried Life by Geoff Ryman
• Sutty in The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Tabitha Jute in Colin Greenland's Plenty series
• Thenike in Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
• unnamed friend of main character in Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse
• Trouble in Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
• Zanja na'Tarwein in Fire Logic, Earth Logic,, and Water Logic by Laurie J. Marks

Comics, manga, anime

• Batwoman (resurrected character)
• Karma, aka Xi'an Coy Manh, Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1 #100 (Dec. 1980) (New Mutants; S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Sunfire (Mariko Yashida), Exiles #2, Sept. 2001 (openly lesbian) (alt. dimension version of Mariko)
• Sailor Uranus (Haruka Tenoh) and Sailor Neptune (Michiru Kaioh)
• Satsu, Slayer in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8

Movies and television

• Original Cindy and Diamond, Original Cindy's former girlfriend, in Dark Angel
• Ida Teeter (lesbian entomologist) and her lover (played by Misty Mundae) in "Sick Girl" dir. by Lucky McKee
• Isabelle Blundell from "Alienated (TV series)"
• Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters in Babylon 5 were lovers
• Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg; Willow & Kennedy (Buffy)
• Xena and Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
• Gabby (minor character in Lady Shiva (TV episode) of Birds of Prey (TV series)

Games

• Juhani, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

Works by title

Works which include no particular major or named lesbian characters, that nevertheless include lesbians, include:

• Wilhelmina Baird, Crashcourse
• Alexander Besher, Rim
• Elizabeth Bear, Carnival
• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
• Chris Claremont, First Flight (1981) (bi or lesbian female character)
• C. S. Lewis. Miss Hardcastle in That Hideous Strength (very negative portrayal of a stereotypical sadistic butch)
• Jo Walton. The mother and her lover in Farthing.

need names

• Melissa Scott. protagonists in Night Sky Mine; many more.
• Stephen Dedman, Foreign Bodies (1999) (protagonist who changes bodies)
• Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine (1996)
• Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth (2001)
• Timmi Duchamp's Marq'ssan Cycle

See also

• List of SF featuring queer women as protagonists

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